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  1. icm
    Very impressive. I'm tempted to shell out some coin for this.
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    The function of GWPs is to substitute for discount sales so that Shop at Home, which isn't allowed to discount sets significantly until end-of-life, can compete with retailers like Amazon and Walmart, which regularly discount sets 20%. Although I don't like some sets being paywalled as GWPs with high thresholds, I do like to get a desirable GWP that's approximately 20% of the value of the set I'm buying. Otherwise there's little reason to buy at full price from Shop at Home.
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    https://www.thedrive.com/news/aston-martin-f1-safety-car-just-crashed-heavily-at-f1s-fastest-track This isn't strictly Lego news, but I think it's interesting that one of the cars featured in the 2024 Speed Champions lineup just crashed. I hope they can get it put back together again!
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    That looks like the escape pod from the 2006 playscale star destroyer set 6211.
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    That would be neat.
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    Ok, I've taken another look - it's not an exact copy, but it's close enough to Lego models that I wouldn't be surprised if it was copied, then altered enough to be different. The roof and rear wall of the crew cabin are very similar to those from Lego 41713 Olivia's Space Academy from 2022. Also the nose cone and the side walls of the cabin, and the angles, size, construction, and detailing of the wings, and the use of a single simple part for the tail fin. The cargo bay doors are nearly identical to those from Lego 31117 Space Shuttle Adventure from 2021. The OMS pods are different than the OMS pods on either the Friends or Creator shuttles. The model of the Hubble Space Telescope in the CADA kit is lightly modified from Lego 21312 Women of NASA from 2017. The CADA set comes with a big display stand, which is a common device used by Chinese companies to differentiate their kits from the Lego kits they are inspired by. Another Chinese company (the fourth image in this post) has copied the Creator shuttle. They gave it a great big stand and aft module to differentiate their kit, but the base shuttle is almost identical.
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    It's mostly a knockoff of the 3-in-1 Lego Creator space shuttle from 2021.
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    My opinions about the second and third entries of the sequel trilogy are sharply different than yours, but I won't debate the point!
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    The TFA sets sold like hotcakes. If you remember, Star Wars was a very hot property back in late 2015. TFA was a very successful movie at the box office and with merchandise sales. The 2015 Millennium Falcon set won several toy awards and was one of the best-sellng toys of the holiday season. From Hans Burkhard Schlomer's designer bricklist: It turned out to be the most popular LEGO set in 2016 by far, of all product lines! It also won a TOY OF THE YEAR AWARD from the American Toy Association for "best boy toy 2016". I guess the unbelievably fantastic product placement in Episode 7 helped a bit, but one year before we had no idea how much (or little) screentime the "MILF" would receive in the first Disney Star Wars movie ....
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    Classic Space Rover

    icm replied to danth's topic in LEGO Sci-Fi

    Spaceship go sproing! I like it.
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    I used to be disappointed that there aren't any explicit throwback minifig playscale sets in the 2024 Year of Space, but I got over that. The sheer breadth and variety of Space and Space-adjacent sets in 2024 is far more than I can afford to buy, and the Artemis SLS rocket and Apollo Lunar Rover are dream-come-true sets for me. I'm going to try to get the other Space sets as they go on sale later this year, but I've been eating so good with Space this year that I don't mind the lack of, say, Classic Space, Blacktron, Ice Planet, or Space Police as throwback sets.
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    Shows you how much I know about Daredevil and the A-Team!
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    I think it's a reference to the Marvel superhero Daredevil, whose secret identity is a lawyer named Matt Murdoch. I'm not very familiar with the character myself, but he lives in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York and has to stop all sorts of crazy things from happening in his neighborhood. It's nothing against you personally, I guarantee that.
  14. icm
    I suggest you ask the mods privately if you really want to know. Otherwise, we'll all be waiting to see your Turtle Cave. Sounds like a fun MOC idea.
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    The dollhandz look pretty useful though.
  16. icm
    The mods removed the offending post, as they usually do.
  17. icm
    He got suspended for a post that was blatantly racist, sexist, and homophobic all at once. He must have insulted the moderators in private messages after being suspended. That could result in the suspension escalating to an outright ban.
  18. icm
    A new cockpit design is the one thing that could make the new Eta-2 interesting for me. Hope it's good! Still going to try to get it half price no figs though, $45 for an Eta-2 is insane.
  19. icm
    It's the hero ship from the Disney+ series Skeleton Crew, which will premiere on December 3.
  20. icm
    Fair enough.
  21. icm
    Fine. "Gender-opposite counterparts," not "gender-swapped." IMO, that's a distinction without a difference.
  22. icm
    Gender-swapping comic book roles is nothing new. It's not a WTF creative choice unless you're the type that thinks Superman being able to fly is also WTF. Meaning, it's just you, Turtle. Move on.
  23. icm
    Official images are out now, they announced it at SDCC. If Salacious Crumb looks like a Muppet, I'd say that's a pretty good minifig! Because he is. But you know that :)
  24. icm
    All Lego City police sets are like from Gotham City, from a certain point of view.
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    It's a good recolor of a good set, but by fixing the tailplane on axles instead of pins you remove the functionality of a working elevator
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